Franklin Library leather edition of Heinrich Boll's "The Safety Net," Translated from the German by Leila Vennewitz, a Limited edition, one of the FIRST EDITION SOCIETY series, published in 1981.  Bound in hunter green leather, the book has matching French moire silk end leaves, satin book marker, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges----in FINE condition. Heinrich Boll, who lived from 1917---1985, was one of Germany's foremost post-World War II writers. Born in COLOGNE to a Roman Catholic and pacifist family, he and his family opposed the rise of Nazism. Boll refused to join Hitler Youth in the 1930s.  Conscripted into the Wehrmacht, he served in POLAND, FRANCE, ROMANIA, HUNGARY and the SOVIET UNION. In 1942, he married Annemarie Cech, with whom he had three sons.  During WW 2, Boll was wounded four times and contracted typhoid.  He was captured by US troops in 1945 and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp. After the war, Boll returned to Cologne and worked in his family's cabinet shop until he became a full-time writer.   Although Fritz Tolm and his wife Käthe, protagonist in "The Safety Net," play a representative role in established society, their sympathies are often on the side of their children and their friends. The Tolm family, for example, abandons the most difficult problem to the enormously bloated police apparatus, depending on whether the individuals are more likely to belong to the suspects or the vulnerable or even to both categories. This increases compulsively, as the signs pile up, threatening a new stop. But Fritz Tolm achieves a new clarity. Boll was awarded the Georg Buchner Prize in 1967 and the NOBEL PRIZE for LITERATURE in 1972.  368 pages.  I offer Combined shipping.